Ten Thousand Martyrs of Nicomedia

The Ten Thousand Martyrs of Nicomedia are commemorated together on 18 March (new style) in the Greek synaxarion. It is not known where or when they suffered; it is supposed that they died by the sword at Nicomedia around the year 300.

A verse of the synaxarion says that ten thousand men, with their necks cut, departed to where the minds with ten thousand eyes are, that is, among the angelic powers.